I spent the afternoon round at Andy's where we put together a decent sized track to test out the Scalextric Digital system. We set up a layout with seven switching points - three to change between the two lanes, one for a short pit lane, and three to navigate the three-lane section.
The Scalextric Digital powerbase and display has lots of clever functionality, although it's a real pain to use. But we set a couple of Metros driving themselves around the track, making random lane changes, and then used our cars to try and get past them. We started with Metros ourselves until we got used to the track and then some of the more cherished cars that we've converted to digital came out to play.
One of the challenges with the computer controlled Metros is that obviously they don't come off the throttle when there's an accident ahead, and their random lane changes mean you have to watch for being side-swiped - as Andy was here by a Metro coming back out of the pitlane, de-slotting and taking a wheel off his Bentley!
My Jaguar Mk2 with Ninco chassis proved a lot of fun, if a bit of a handful at times. Fortunately we remembered to put some barriers up which limited the three feet drops onto the garage floor!
The Scalextric Digital powerbase and display has lots of clever functionality, although it's a real pain to use. But we set a couple of Metros driving themselves around the track, making random lane changes, and then used our cars to try and get past them. We started with Metros ourselves until we got used to the track and then some of the more cherished cars that we've converted to digital came out to play.
One of the challenges with the computer controlled Metros is that obviously they don't come off the throttle when there's an accident ahead, and their random lane changes mean you have to watch for being side-swiped - as Andy was here by a Metro coming back out of the pitlane, de-slotting and taking a wheel off his Bentley!
My Jaguar Mk2 with Ninco chassis proved a lot of fun, if a bit of a handful at times. Fortunately we remembered to put some barriers up which limited the three feet drops onto the garage floor!
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